2025-09-30 –, Room 1
An alert came in, waking you from a dream. What to do? Is it a vulnerability that needs immediate attention? Or just a flaky script? Alerts come in all sorts of frustrating shapes and sizes, but sadly not enough of them are worthy of your attention. There’s many ways to solve this: how much AI do you want here? Lots! Great, we’ll do that. Let’s explore ways to make alerting more helpful, more useful and more deserving of your precious time and attention.
As more teams move to microservices and managed systems, the number of ephemeral systems and resources explodes. With those new systems come new monitors, new alerts, and new middle-of-the-night pages. And that means wasted time and attention. Join us as we walk through ways to improve the automation of parsing and filtering alerts, and create intelligent systems that can suggest, or even take, action for you when alerts come in. Finally, we will all have more time to relax and enjoy the fruits of our labors.
Max Saltonstall loves teaching, especially when it comes to The Cloud and Cybersecurity. A New York native, he’s part of the Datadog Technical Storytelling team within Advocacy. He's also known to expound on board games and juggling with almost no provocation. Max has strong opinions about chocolate and ice cream - just ask.
Kennedy Toomey is an Application Security Researcher & Advocate at Datadog. Previously she was an Application Security Engineer where she spent her time working with developers to help fix vulnerabilities and write more secure code.